Category Archives: Development

Sitecore 9.1 was finally released. Although everyone expected to have at least of technical preview of new UX experience “Horizon”, it is not included. But, still, there are couple features to be explored.

The first updated and improved experience include installation process. In comparison with previous Sitecore versions, few improvements were added to setup Sitecore with less effort.

Do you remember how Sitecore configuration files for multiple environments and server configurations were handled? Times, when files needed to be removed during deployment process, renamed, overwritten or transformed? These times are definitively out!

Sitecore Forms represents new feature introduced in Sitecore 9 and newer versions. It is considered as replacement of WffM, but current situation is still little bit painfull. Some features from WffM are missing, and many behavior aspects are not configurable as they are hardcoded in code provided by Sitecore.

In this article we will cover one of missing features – “Identify Contact” submit action, which allows us simply “Identify” anonymous contacts by filling subscription form.

This article reuses and simplifies scenario used in Sitecore Documentation here.

In previous article, I covered some basic stuff related to Sitecore and PaaS topic. And as promised, now we will deep into installing Sitecore 9.0 into Azure. At first step, we will focus on installation requirements.

Installation will be covered from very beginning steps in manual mode (so, we will not use prepared images available on Azure marketplace), which allows us to customize our sitecore installation.

As second solution, there are prepared Sitecore images in Azure Marketplace, which are ready for “few click” installation.

With the latest release of Sitecore 9, there is the need to have Solr running also for a single server installation. This is largely thanks to the new xConnect layer that uses either Solr or Azure Search. If you find yourself in the need to install Solr on Windows and run it as a service, let me share with you some of my learnings from this journey. Continue reading How to install Solr as a Windows Service→